Jazz Articles about Tab Benoit

Tab Benoit and Jimmy Thackery: Whiskey Store Live

by C. Michael Bailey
February 6, 2004

Blues artists Tab Benoit and Jimmy Thackery are turning out to be one of the better pairings coming out of the Telarc Blues stables. Independently, the two artists deliver their own unique brand of guitar-based blues, soul, and R&B. Together, Benoit and Thackery meld the disparate elements of their styles into a corrosively unified vision. Not bad Mojo for two white guys playing the blues in the 21st Century.

In their 2002 studio release, Whiskey Store , both ...

Tab Benoit: The Sea Saint Sessions

by C. Michael Bailey
June 25, 2003

Houma, Louisiana native Tab Benoit has proven to be one of the most credible and enduring blues artists to emerge in the past 20 years. In the mini-blues revival that has slowly been gaining steam since the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Benoit stands alone in being the practitioner of gritty Creole swamp blues. His sound has been honed not by hours in the studio, but years on the road. His composition and performance reflect this fact.

Mr. Benoit began ...

Tab Benoit: These Blues Are All Mine

by Ed Kopp
December 1, 1999

Tab Benoit is a passionate axeman and full-throated singer. His sixth release shows the full extent of the Louisiana native's considerable talent.Recorded live to analog in a '50s-era Houston studio, These Blues offers uncompromising guitar-propelled blues. The music here is occasionally reminiscent of the two Alberts, King and Collins, and includes tracks made famous by both. An additional five tracks were penned by Benoit. Per his usual, Benoit delivers a few swampy odes to his Louisiana stomping grounds.